Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris, winning 312 electoral votes to Harris' 226, to become the 47th president of the United States. During his seven battleground state sweep in the presidential election, Trump won Nevada, a Democrat-leaning battleground state, by a similar percentage margin to his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. Although Trump lost the Democrat-favored Clark County in 2024, he gained noticeable ground compared to his 2016 and 2020 presidential runs — shrinking the percentage deficit by nearly four-fold.
This shift mirrored national trends from the 2024 presidential election when Trump made significant inroads into Democrat-controlled counties. In Democrat stronghold Bronx County, New York, Trump received 27% of the vote in 2024, shrinking his margin of defeat compared to the 9% he received in 2016 and the 15% he won in 2020.
The last time a Republican presidential candidate won in Clark County was in 1988 when then-presidential candidates George H.W. Bush (R) defeated Michael Dukakis (D) by a margin of 15.51%. Since the 1988 election, Bush’s victory in Nevada remains the greatest margin over an opponent with a nearly 21% delta. Within that same time frame, former President Barack Obama had the largest margin in Clark County, with a nearly 19% advantage over his opponent in 2008.
The president stopped by North Carolina and California to assess damages caused by Hurricane Helene and the Los Angeles wildfiresbefore his visit to the Silver State. During his stop in North Carolina, Trump voiced the idea of reducing or eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“FEMA has really let us down, let the country down,” Trump told reporters in separate remarks upon landing in Asheville. “Probably less FEMA, because FEMA just hasn’t done the job. And we’re looking at the whole concept of FEMA.”
In California, the president said the scene looked as if it “got hit by a bomb” and pledged to offer support, with contingencies, blaming the response on California leadership.
In a Day One memorandum, the Trump administration declared that California leaders were putting fish over people, attributing insufficient water for firefighting efforts to protections for the Delta smelt, a fish found only in the San Francisco Estuary, and other fish species that prevented “enormous amounts of water” from Northern California from being used in the Central Valley and Southern California.
“Mis- and disinformation I don’t think advantages or aids any of us," said California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) earlier this month in response to Trump’s concerns of the Delta smelt. "Somehow connecting the Delta smelt to this fire is inexcusable because it’s inaccurate. Also, incomprehensible to anyone that understands water policy in the state.”
Since taking office on Monday, Trump has signed dozens of executive orders, largely targeting immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, announced the formation of the Stargate AI infrastructure project, and granted about 1,500 pardons for those involved in violent and nonviolent crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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